9/11 Luci AMPS 73

Sue and Luci

Sue and Luci

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Luci was a good girl yesterday while her beans were at the hospital. She ate all her food from every tray in her auto-feeder, had nice blue numbers when we got home and kept it that way - no dramatics - thankfully!

I however look like someone just coming from a boxing match - the loser :( My skin cancer required two rounds to remove it all - then the ensuing plastic surgery involved removing cartilage from my ear and skin from my face to patch up the wound...so there's going to be some healing time...just not easy to look at my face looking like this :(

Of course Luci doesn't notice anything - she came up for snuggles this morning and bit me a couple of times...4 or 5 a.m.??? So here we are with a beautiful green start! I asked her to give me a nice number this morning! Mama needs some good news to start her day! I'm off work for a few days so Luci will be getting lots of attention - well, a lot of tests. DH will be able to fill in when I'm resting. I'm sorry we missed out on seeing her surfing session yesterday. I'm sure she was there - but with no tests, no proof of that actually happening. Hopefully today will be nice and green...no drama though!

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone! Hope all your kitties will be safe and make their way to the beach/lagoon for some good times :)
 
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Did you have Mohs surgery?
 
JoyBee&Ravan said:
View attachment 47774 Did you have Mohs surgery?
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Yes, I had Mohs...if you're familiar with it you know it can be a multi-step process. They try to be conservative and take as little tissue as needed...this time it took two surgeries to scrape out all the cancer cells - they told me that the tissue is very thin, like tissue paper...so they scraped it out - showed me a picture of the hole - I was surprised it was so deep...and then the surgery that followed - required more needle pokes to start an IV - and then they tell me they're using a general anesthesia - what??? I hadn't heard about any of this previously - the surgery lasted 2.5 hours - sheesh...I thought it was going to be an hour...not sure how I misunderstood so much of this earlier on - maybe I was in denial or perhaps they didn't know how long it would take until after the cancer had been removed?? They took cartilage from my ear, tissue from in front of my ear and patched the hole in my nose - so now I have three sore places to deal with...I'll live...but I'm sore and tender and tired from that ordeal...

And Luci is surfing along the very deepest part of the lagoon - I think she's teasing the sharks from her spot - just itching to get down there with them - but a bit of MC keeps her just above the deeper waters - she's just out of range of those nasty ole sharkies...and I'm trying to keep her there.

I think after lunch it's time for a nap - DH will have to take over the Luci-duty for a few hours.
 
hoping that you heal as smoothly as DH did after his surgery -- keep taking that turmeric/curcumin, seems to stop or at least delay any recurrence

just guessing, it must have gone deeper than either you or doctors believed, initially -- glad they got it all out

if that general anesthesia gave you a gift of a bit of nausea -- ginger ale will help -- nobody ever mentions it except those of us who've lived it

tell Luci that love bites don't heal but purrs do
 
Sue and Luci said:
if you're familiar with it you know it can be a multi-step process.
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I've never had Mohs but I'm familiar with it because I read a lot ,about Everything!!:p
I read it takes a lot of time because they keep taking thin samples to check for cancer cells. (that's a GOOD thing!) They make sure they got it all!

Have a nice rest :bighug:
 
CandyH & Catcat said:
if that general anesthesia gave you a gift of a bit of nausea -- ginger ale will help -- nobody ever mentions it except those of us who've lived it
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It did...and the Vernor's ginger ale that I asked for helped immensely. I should have told them before hand that I get nausea easily - the last time I had surgery I was given a scopolamine patch prior to the anesthesia and it helped a great deal. I have an Rx for Scopolamine patches for boating - doesn't take much to make me sick...but I got over it fairly easily - it helped to get home and get to bed for some sleep.

Thank you for your well wishes :)
 
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